Friday, 10 February 2012

Winter continues

We had a little more snow again today and I quickly snapped a few pictures (in poor light) in order to capture them before the snow melted. The birds were making the best of our bird feeder and we had quite a collection in the garden. I was unable to snap every kind that arrived looking for food, they tend to act camera shy and vanish as soon as I have got them in shot.

Twisted Hazel with two visitors in there somewhere

All the smaller birds disappear when he arrives

Magpies will take baby chicks from smaller bird's nests in spring, so he is not very popular with them.

Robins are regular visitors and are very territorial, so he may be the same one we see most days

The snow did go mostly during the day, but there is still a little left and the temperature is falling rapidly this evening so it could be icy tomorrow.

Kaybee, it has been almost as low in some parts of the UK at night. There is a sparrow, more or less centre and you can just see a Great tit to the right of that. Ellie, a 500mm zoom lens gets you close to Magpies. AJ, good idea.

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